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PARKERSBURG (AP) — A Wood County school’s single-gender classes are on hold while a lawsuit challenging their legality is heard in federal court. U.S. District Chief Judge Joseph Goodwin issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday halting the classes at Van Devender Middle School in Parkersburg for the remainder of the school year. The American Civil Liberties [...]
Continue reading …LEWISBURG (AP) — A female bald eagle has been released back to the wilds of West Virginia after recovering from zinc poisoning. The eagle was released Wednesday following nearly three weeks of rehabilitation at the Three Rivers Avian Center. The Charleston Gazette reports that the bird was found by a worker at the Greenbrier County [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin says he’s appealing a decision by the Federal Emergency Management Administration denying individual assistance to West Virginians who suffered property losses during a fierce windstorm June 29. The governor said he appealed FEMA’s Aug. 8 determination on Tuesday. The late June derecho and subsequent storms left three people [...]
Continue reading …By PAUL J. NYDEN The Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON (AP) — In jail for more than a decade for allegedly killing a member of the McCoy family during the infamous Hatfield-McCoy feud, Alexander Messer wanted to know how his daughter was getting along. Messer sent his daughter, Haney Prater, 10 letters in the early years of [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — Revenues from the state’s racetrack casinos fell by more than 10 percent in July compared to a year ago. The Charleston Gazette says revenue from racetrack video lottery totaled $60.84 million, down $7.19 million from July 2011. Table games revenue fell by $610,000 to $6.53 million. Competition from new casinos in Ohio [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — Recent remarks by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to sportsmen and women are stirring interest in West Virginia in a big game animal: elk. According to the Charleston Daily Mail, Tomblin received strong applause when he mentioned bringing elk back to the state at a dinner hosted by Sportsmen for Tomblin. The last [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — A West Virginia state trooper and a suspect were killed by gunfire during a traffic stop Tuesday night in the first fatal shooting involving a trooper in 19 years. Another trooper was seriously wounded and a sheriff’s deputy and tow-truck driver also were hurt, authorities said. Two troopers saw the suspect driving [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — The small town of Pratt has some big problems, and Kanawha County officials said Monday it could lead to the town being dissolved. County officials said they learned last week that the town and its water plant owe the Internal Revenue Service about $140,000 because it did not submit federal tax withholdings [...]
Continue reading …KINGWOOD (AP) — More than 185 soldiers and airmen with the West Virginia National Guard are participating in an exercise to evaluate their chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear responses. Officials say the team is being evaluated on its responses during the exercise on Tuesday at Camp Dawson in Kingwood. The team is made up of [...]
Continue reading …PRINCETON (AP) — The widow of the late Delegate Thomas Michael Porter says she has received notices for him to appear for jury duty twice since he died in 2010. Ruth Porter of Princeton is calling for changes in the way jury pools are selected. “I received something in the mail telling me he had [...]
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